NEWS: 9.0 Quake, Tsunamis Strike SE Asia - 275,000+ Dead

Originally posted by CazMedia
They said that one providence...(sounded like ahh-che) in i believe indonesia could push the death total to 400,000 by itself.....
thats like a major city size amount of people!!!!

(CNN) -- International aid organizations are accepting donations to help victims of the powerful earthquake and resulting tsunamis that caused
widespread destruction in parts of South Asia and East Africa. The groups include:

As some of you might remember from other forums, my wife is Indonesian. It happens that one of her best friends lives in Banda Aech. Last night we
were able to get through to her (she and her family are safe, thank god, and in a different town in Sumatra now).

The death toll of 40K would seem a little low to her. They were one of the lucky ones and their house survived the quake and tsunami. However, their
home is now filled with corpses that floated in during the flooding. (I can’t imagine that…just piles of bodies inside and around your home). The
smell was so bad they couldn’t stay…the stench was making everyone too sick to even try to clean up.

everyday I wake up and I check this thread and it breaks my heart to see the number of dead still rising.
This is by far the greatest natural disaster in my life so, I only pray that I never have to hear similiar death tolls about any disaster for the rest
of my life.

We have stood proud in the face of evil, a time when an act of terror seemed to bring us, and perhaps the world together. On September 11, 2001 many
of us discovered how fragile this life is.

Since that day we’ve lived in a world of wars, fear of attacks, and in awe at the man made destruction brought upon humanity by itself.

Yet through this Asian earthquake and the power of the resulting tsunami, we’ve seen that no form of man made destruction can compare to the awesome
power of nature.

This event has shown both how fragile and insignificant our existence on this planet is. We humans tend to believe that we have ultimate power over
our world. In times of natural disaster on a massive scale such as that seen in the aftermath of this earthquake and tsunami we are forced to see how
utterly powerless we truly are in the face of the awesome power of nature.

The impact of this event is still evolving, the cause is a mystery, and the speculation is rampant. Is there really something wrong with our planet?
Is this the end of the world? Are the poles about to flip?

The reality is, this was just an earthquake, a natural event. At a time and place where the power of the earthquake was able to lift the ocean itself
and throw it onto our human world and wash many of us away. It has happened before and it will likely happen again.

We should have more respect for our world, we should have more caring and concern for our fellow humans, not just in times like these, but always.

We can give in the form of donations and aid to the impacted regions, we can do everything we can think of to ‘help’. The reality is that is all we
can do. We can give till it hurts, but realize it is not going to make this tragedy go away, it will not erase the unmistakable sense of
insignificance.. Only time can do that. However giving can bring comfort to those left behind all those souls now washed away. Giving what you can
now, can and will help these people.

Why only give when there is a natural disaster?

Why does it take death and destruction to bring ‘us’ together?

Why only in times like these are world governments and leaders able to set aside differences?

Why does this all quickly fade away with the news coverage of these events?

Southern India is also being shaken...
Since The BIG One there has been 83 Aftershocks in the region

With the biggest one topping off at 6.2...

6 Quakes have occured in California since.....

The thing I am worried about is How the Cumbre Vieja volcano may be effected by all of this.....

We like to imagine the earth as a relatively stable place to live, raise our families, & enjoy all that life has to offer... and indeed the past
numerous millennia have been relatively 'stable', on a planet-lifecycle timeline vs human lifecycles.

However, I'm curious how this recent massive quake-- along with the changes scientists claim have already occurred as a result-- will affect the
"SuperVolcano" that consumes almost the ENTIRE state of Wyoming!

In fact, geysers (like 'old faithful') & other geothermal activity seen at Yellowstone Park are actually the surface/dome of that SuperVolcano!...
AND, the dome has been expanding upward quite dramatically over recent decades!

Scientists believe the last Wyoming SuperVolcano erruption extinguished almost all life from our planet. Obviously, this would be exponentially worse
than our present Tsunami disaster, AND, it appears we're overdue for another such MASSIVE erruption.

Over the past two million years, the Yellowstone supervolcano has erupted every 600,000 years. It was 640,000 years ago when it last exploded.

The harsh reality proves we exist on an unpredictable planet, in an unpredicatble solar system, universe, & cosmos... all of which we're still in our
infancy of understanding with any truely accurate degree of comprehension.

This is precisely why we need to urgently consider expanding the human race throughout the universe-- if we sincerely wish to insure the
survival of our species. Yet, we don't even have colonies on the moon. At any moment, we could be quickly eliminated by enormous natural, cosmic, OR,
unfortunately even self-imposed man-made disasters.

As we're repeatedly &, yes, recently reminded-- these threats are VERY real & quite serious, thereby perhaps dictating a new heightened intensified
sense of urgency not readily present among our OR other nations-- at least not to our public knowledge anyway.

Meanwhile- cherrish every moment & make the most of ALL valuable moments. Try not to get easily drawn into those silly petty things we allow to
clutter, cling, & consume our precious time... remember- W.W.S.D! (my new discovery! see below) Live life to its ultimate fullest while its still
plump with enlightenment & ripe with opportunities just waiting to be enjoyed & experienced!!!

PORT BLAIR, India (Reuters) - India's dwindling aboriginal population in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands is safe as most lived in jungles, far
away from the coast hit by a devastating tsunami, a coast guard official said on Thursday.
Experts had feared that some Stone Age tribal people, who have been living on the far-flung archipelago for thousands of years, could be on the verge
of extinction after the killer waves that have killed more than 120,000 people across Asia.

"There have been several media reports talking about a threat to the aborigines, indigenous people and tribals of the islands," Vice Admiral Arun
Kumar Singh, director-general of the Coast Guard, which is involved in rescue operations, told reporters.

I hope that that this is true -If so - I'm happy that They could survive...

I saw an article saying some Russian scientist warning of more devestaing Tsunamis in the Atlantic on Alex Jones Prison Planet yesterday. It appears
to have disappeared. Does anyone have the link to this article?

Of particular interest is the link entitled Indonesia: Before and After (after the window loads up select Photos:Impact => Before and After) which
shows a series of satellite shots taken of Banda Aceh, Indonesia in June of this year, and then again on the 28th of December. This is the first
comparison I have seen that really drives home the devastation for Indonesia.

A little more on the topic of conspiracy could a nuke deployed on a fault line correctly cause a disaster of this magnitude? It occured to me today
that there are many countries in this area involved in Nuclear testing programmes. Just wondering if anyone would have facts on if that could cause
such an event?

Alot of smaller countries are very involved in donation and relief efforts. Was watching sky news this night and seen the prime minister of Ireland
telling of over 10 million euros in gov aid and nearly 2 million euros from the population of over 3 million, which donations still strong. I respect
nations like that. Kudos to every country and every person getting involved. Every dollar helps.

I am visiting asia in February and plan to do aid work when there. Also going to give whatever I can in donation. I hope everyone here does something
also. There could be 100,000's of dead people who were alive and well only days ago. Millions homeless and without hope.

This is a horrible event, my heart goes out to the familys and people effected

Originally posted by pugleon
A little more on the topic of conspiracy could a nuke deployed on a fault line correctly cause a disaster of this magnitude? It occured to me today
that there are many countries in this area involved in Nuclear testing programmes. Just wondering if anyone would have facts on if that could cause
such an event?

looks to be quite a number of quakes today in the same eastern indian area again, maybe 6-7, cant quite tell from
this ,gets quite clogged up. Anyone got a good site that lists the quake instead of showing them on a graphic
and is also uptodate as this site is?

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